What's up all? I just recently starting doing a 'Let's Play' of the new sandbox game called Starbound. In Starbound you start out in a ship orbiting an unknown planet. Your ship is out of fuel so you need to go down to the planet and collect fuel.
Sounds pretty simple, but it's not! You get what is called a 'matter manipulator,' which allows you to chop down trees, move rocks, dig tunnels, and anything else your heart desires. You can then build houses from simple to elaborate. If you ever played the game Teraria Starbound is very similar. They are both unique in their own way though. I highly reccomend picking both up.
Here is part one of my 'Let's Play,' of Starbound:
I decided to start doing a Path of Exile 'Let's Play' video series. This is my first narrated video series that I've done, so it is more of an experiment than anything. Let me know what you guys think, appreciate it! Parts 3, 4, and 5 should be up in the next couple days.
Path of Exile is a hack and slash game very similar to Diablo 2. It's been called what 'Diablo 3' should have been. It is also a free game through Steam. (Or via their website.) They make their money through micro-transactions so be sure to try it out... after all it's free!
The best part about this is game is the customization. The skill tree is ridiculous, and I mean ridiculous. There are over a thousand passive skills to customize your character with. On top of that there are also tons of active skills and supplemental skills to allow you to customize even further.
I recently started playing around with RPG Maker XP. It's a neat little program that allows you to make your own Role Playing Game. It comes with per-determined sprites and tile sets. The design of the levels and the scripting is left up to you. Fairly intuitive as well, I've done some basic scripting on some other games and it's very easy to pick up.
For my first 'game' I decided to make it play out as a video or episode. So, instead of actively playing the game it is seen as an episode to a series. At first I just started making cities/villages with no real aim or direction but as I dug into it I made enough for one episode, and eventually a second episode.
Given, both episode one and episode two only add up to about nine minutes of actual footage I still think I'm at a good start.
I've always been a big fan of the Elder Scrolls games. The very first game I played by Bethesda was The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. At the time I was an avid reader of the PC Gamer magazine. After reading some first looks and reviews of Morrowind I knew I had to have it for my X-Box. See below pictures for a 'Morrowind' first look from PC Gamer.
At the time I was fourteen years old, but I had saved up enough money from babysitting to buy it. Yes, I baby sat. I'm going a bit off-topic here but the kid I baby sat was really into sports and playing outdoors. Well, when I was babysitting I put a stop to that! I brought over all the best computer games and introduced him to the world of gaming. Why go outside when you can game? Why explore nature when you can explore it from your desk?
I had given my mother the money and told her when the game would be released. She said that she would pick it up on her lunch break. Lo and behold release day comes and the store my mother goes to is sold out. I was distraught! I had been anxiously awaiting my mother's return from work only to be sorely dissapointed.
After a week of waiting I finally get a hold of Morrowind. Words could not describe how excited I was. I popped it into my X-Box and started her up. The thing I will always remember about Morrowind is the intro music... nothing else like it. It was so distinct. (Music Video below.)
Once you start the game you find that you are on a the bottom level of a boat and there is a curious looking fellow staring at you asking for your name. This curious fellow was named Jiub... and I have never trusted him. Don't ask me why, but he seems like a shady fellow.
I mean just look at him. Who the hell is that ripped? Especially if he is surviving off of prisoner rations. Also, he is completely hairless and as my father always said never trust the hairless.
Anywho, the guards eventually release you from your captivity with Jiub. They instruct you to go to the top floor of the boat and to work your way to the census office. One of the awe inspiring parts of playing this game was getting to the top floor of the boat and just looking at the sky. I had seen nothing else like it, it almost looked life like!
That entire summer I did nothing, and I mean nothing, but play Morrowind. I was too young to drive, or have a real job so I spent my days playing Morrowind. Given, that my brother and I would have to share the X-Box but when I was not playing I was looking up strategy guides or tips and tricks on the game.
My brother would always stay up throughout the night playing. I knew this, so I would get up at five to six am the next morning right when he was going to sleep. That would give me a solid eight to ten hours of gaming time.
I have so many great memories from this game and half the time I played I wasn't even completing quests or story lines. I just spent the time exploring the gigantic world and looking for treasures or tougher enemies. Morrowind is one of those games that you will start playing and in a blink of an eye ten hours have passed. It is truly a master piece.
I'll add some more stories from Morrowind at a later date.
This is by far one of the best, if not the best, single player role playing games in existence. I have never found another game quite like it. I picked it up on a whim when I was fourteen years old and perusing the Wal-Mart video game section. The cover art on the box is what drew me in, see for yourself:
Once I got it installed and got it fired up I was a little overwhelmed. The character creation offers so many options from beauty, charisma, willpower, trap disarmament, gambling, necromancy, and so on. See below.
I had no idea where to start so I made a half-ogre with knowledge in melee. I started the game and went through the typical intro movies. After a few minutes I was finally ready to play! Well, come to find out Half-Ogres have very low intelligence... and the Arcanum NPCs will treat you differently because your character is imbecile. I was not aware of this, but it made for a hilarious first character. There is a video below showing NPC's reactions to a retarded character.
So, I played for a while as the dumb character... but I ended up getting a little bored with it so I decided to make a new character that could solve simple arithmetic. This time I decided on a gnome wizard. I saw there was an ability to summon creatures to fight for you so I maxed that out as much as I could. I figured summoning two ogres to protect me would work out pretty well.
This build worked out quite well. Whenever anything would attack me I would summon two ogres and then run and hide while they took care of business. I did my first play through of this game as that character.
After I beat the game I promptly went back and created a whole new character with all different possibilities. Don't want a gnome summoner? How about a Dwarf gunsmith who specializes in making high tech armor? Or, how about a hafling with a deadly bow and arrow?
If you haven't played Arcanum before I reccomend geting it now! It can be bought on Gog.com, or on E-Bay. If you were a fan of the original Fallout games, Baldur's Gate, or IceWind Dale you will love Arcanum.
